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Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train.
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- 30 Sep 2019
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- 01Horrell, M. (ed)(1982). Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1981, Johannesburg: South African Bureau of Race Relations, p. 78
Last updated · 30 Sep 2019
South African History Online. (2012, April 13). Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train.. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0081717
South African History Online (2012) 'Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train.', South African History Online, 13 April. Available at: https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0081717 (Accessed: 8 August 2026).
South African History Online, Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train. [website], https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0081717, (accessed 8 August 2026).
"Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train.." South African History Online, 13 Apr. 2012, https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0081717. Accessed 8 Aug. 2026.
South African History Online. "Twenty meters of railway track is destroyed on the railway line between Richards Bay and Vryheid, derailing a goods train.." South African History Online. April 13, 2012. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/E-0081717.
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